ARC review: The Highlander's Accidental Marriage (Marriage Mart Mayhem, #6) by Callie Hutton

3 stars! ***

Author: Callie Hutton

Title: The Highlander's Accidental Marriage (Marriage Mart Mayhem, #6)
 

She never intended to take a husband...

Scotland, 1817

The Duke of Manchester's sister, Lady Sarah Lacey, always abides by the rules of etiquette. Fate, however, has no such confines. On a journey to the Scottish Highlands, Lady Sarah is set upon by misfortune-leaving her without carriage or chaperone, and left to the mercy of a kind and handsome gentleman. Whom (in order to secure a room at an inn) she announces is her husband.

When she proclaims they're married in public, Professor Braeden McKinnon can't bring himself to correct the lovely Lady Sarah. After all, her reputation would be ruined. Nor can he tell her that her proclamation is not only legally binding in Scotland, but sharing a room is considered to be an act of consummation...

Now they are bound together until death do they part-even if Sarah has no intention of becoming any man's wife.

My first thought was: how can you ACCIDENTALLY marry someone? That's physicaly impossible. Even if you marry someone while you're drunk it's not accidental. You might have never intended to do it but it wasn't by accident. You can stumble, drop something, hit someone by accident but marry? Nope. No.

Well, apparently when you are in nineteenth century in Scotland you can marry someone just by saying you marry them. That's it. "Haha, it's like we're married!" Bam. You're married.

Lady Sarah travels from her home in England to Scotland where her sister is now happily married and ready to pop a kid out of her.

Everything that could go wrong, goes wrong. Her carriage falls and kills the driver. Fortunately she meets a professor Braeden who helps her and her maid get to the nearest inn. They decide to travel together and their carriage's wheel breaks. Then her maid falls ill and has to be left behind.

So now it's only Sarah and Braeden. After one suspicious look send their way she proclaims that they are married not knowing what it means.

Want to know what's annoying? Too strong willed woman in contemporary romance books. Want to know what's even more annoying? Too strong willed woman in historical romance books.

In this case it wasn't too bad. Sometimes I had to roll my eyes at Sarah? She doesn't want husband and children because she wants to be a writer and thinks that he wouldn't allow it. I get her fear, it was different time and man used to think that woman are good for only couple of things.

But she doesn't even tell Braeden. She just assumes. And is unwilling to compromise. She wants things her way and that's the way it's going to be.

And because Braeden is a man, he does whatever he wants too.

Do you know how their story ended? In compromise!

The Highlander's Accidental Marriage was not my favourite in the series but it was pleasant enough.

I think that there's still one sister left, so one more book to look forward to.